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Establish trust between forests

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Establish trust between forests

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- [Instructor] The next step in setting up a multi-forest topology is to establish a trust relationship between the two forests. So let's go ahead and do that. Right now, I'm logged in to the domain controller for the poseytechwriting.com domain, and I've got the server manager open. So I'm going to go to tools, and I'm going to go to active directory domains and trusts. That's going to open the active directory domains and trusts console, and here, you can see my domain, poseytechwriting.com. I'm going to right-click on the domain name and go to properties, and then I'm going to go to the Trusts tab. And you'll notice that down here at the bottom, we have a button for New Trust. I'll go ahead and click that now. And that's going to launch the New Trust Wizard. I'll click next, and now I'm prompted to enter the name of the forest that I want to establish a trust with. The name of that forest is poseyastronautics.com. So I'll go ahead and type that now and click next. And now I'm asked…

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